http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/12/20/about-php_fcgi_max_requests-and-lighttpd/ Random thoughts and rants...mostly Linux Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:46:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/12/20/about-php_fcgi_max_requests-and-lighttpd/comment-page-1/#comment-2518 Dean Hall Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:06:45 +0000 http://blog.jolexa.net/?p=587#comment-2518 Actually, the more reading I do, the more I'm convinced that lighttpd's fastcgi.server is trying to act as a process manager for php-cgi, but php-cgi is too. To keep fastcgi.server from doing process management, I would guess "max-procs" and "min-procs" should be "1", and PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN and PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS must be set to allow php-cgi to act as its own process manager. Actually, the more reading I do, the more I’m convinced that lighttpd’s fastcgi.server is trying to act as a process manager for php-cgi, but php-cgi is too. To keep fastcgi.server from doing process management, I would guess “max-procs” and “min-procs” should be “1″, and PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN and PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS must be set to allow php-cgi to act as its own process manager.

]]> http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/12/20/about-php_fcgi_max_requests-and-lighttpd/comment-page-1/#comment-2517 Dean Hall Thu, 15 Jul 2010 02:40:16 +0000 http://blog.jolexa.net/?p=587#comment-2517 I could be mistaken here, and correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you may be confusing PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN with the -F parameter of spawn-fcgi. By default, spawn-fcgi spawns a single parent process with $PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN children. The wildcard here is the "max-procs" fastcgi configuration parameter in lighttpd itself. When I was using lighttpd, I didn't use it at all; I merely used PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN to indicate how many children the single parent process should spawn to handle requests, and I usually kept it, depending on the size of the server, between 8 and 32. Actually, I still do, using spawn-fcgi with nginx. I could be mistaken here, and correct me if I’m wrong, but I think you may be confusing PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN with the -F parameter of spawn-fcgi. By default, spawn-fcgi spawns a single parent process with $PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN children. The wildcard here is the “max-procs” fastcgi configuration parameter in lighttpd itself. When I was using lighttpd, I didn’t use it at all; I merely used PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN to indicate how many children the single parent process should spawn to handle requests, and I usually kept it, depending on the size of the server, between 8 and 32. Actually, I still do, using spawn-fcgi with nginx.

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